ďA Frog Went A-CourtingĒ

Collected by Cecil Sharp

Sung by Miss Alpha Combs at
Hindman School, Knott Co., KY, 1917. In
English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians Collected by Cecil
J. Sharp. Ed. Maud Karpeles. Vol. II(London: Oxford UP,
1932). pp. 317-18. Sharp's collection contains a number of other versions
of this ballad and related frog songs.
For details on other versions of this ballad, see
Froggy Went A-Courting in AppLit's Annotated Index of Appalachian
Folktales.